Regulators and prosecutors are backing up their demand for a culture of compliance that starts with the “tone at the top” by bringing BSA/AML enforcement actions against individual bank directors and managers.

In a first-of-its-kind collaboration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have taken coordinated action against a debt settlement company by filing both a criminal indictment and a civil complaint on the same day.

For more than two years, Paul Ceglia has been waging a legal battle against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in an effort to establish himself as the majority owner of the social networking site. Now the Internet entrepreneur has a new courtroom opponent: the federal government.